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Books About Shell

Sep 9th, 2026
by John Donovan.
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Books About Shell: An Expanded Bibliography

Introduction

Royal Dutch Shell, now Shell plc, has generated an unusually large body of literature stretching from official corporate histories and executive memoirs to academic studies, environmental investigations, human-rights accounts and books written by people directly involved in disputes with the company.

The bibliography below includes:

  • histories commissioned or published by Shell;
  • independent corporate histories;
  • biographies of important Shell figures;
  • books about particular Shell businesses and projects;
  • books concerning Nigeria, Ogoni and Ken Saro-Wiwa;
  • books about Brent Spar and Corrib;
  • studies of Shell’s celebrated scenario-planning system;
  • broader histories of the international oil industry in which Shell is a significant subject;
  • and Amazon Kindle books by John Donovan concerning his long-running relationship with Shell.

The descriptions below are original summaries rather than reproductions of publishers’ copyrighted descriptions.

Early Royal Dutch and Shell Histories

1934

An International Oil Man

Author: Sir Henri Deterding, as told to Stanley Naylor
Format: Print read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell HQ Doused in ‘Oil’ as Climate Protesters Turn Up the Heat Before Earnings Day

Jul 29th, 2026
by John Donovan.
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From Brent Spar to Just Stop Oil, Shell has spent decades at the centre of environmental protests. The latest demonstration outside its London headquarters suggests the battle over its future is far from over.

  • Climate campaigners staged a theatrical protest outside Shell’s global headquarters in London on 29 July, using fake oil and firefighter costumes to symbolise what they describe as the company’s role in worsening climate-driven wildfires. The demonstration took place immediately before Shell’s quarterly earnings announcement. Morning Star
  • Protesters argued that expanding North Sea oil and gas production, including Rosebank, is incompatible with climate goals. Shell has consistently maintained that it supports the energy transition while continuing to invest in oil and gas to meet current energy demand.
  • This latest action is only the newest chapter in a much longer history of protest against Shell.

A Company Long Familiar With Protest

Shell has repeatedly found itself at the centre of environmental and human-rights campaigns, including:

  • the Brent Spar controversy in 1995;
  • worldwide outrage following the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine;
  • the Corrib gas protests in Ireland;
  • Greenpeace’s Arctic campaigns;
  • Just Stop Oil demonstrations;
  • and continuing climate litigation and shareholder activism. Wikipedia

Whatever one’s view of these campaigns, few multinational companies have faced such sustained public opposition across so many decades and countries.

Timing Was No Accident

Campaigners deliberately chose the eve of Shell’s financial results.

Major earnings announcements increasingly attract protests because they provide a stark contrast between strong corporate profits and campaigners’ arguments that fossil-fuel companies should be accelerating investment away from hydrocarbons. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell Spying Series: Corrib — Ireland’s Pipeline War, the Whistleblowers, the Surveillance Claims and the Garda Booze Scandal

Jul 6th, 2026
by John Donovan.
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Shell Corrib: The Irish Pipeline War, the Whistleblowers and the Surveillance Shadow Shell Could Never Bury

By John Donovan

Site wide disclaimer also applies.

Shell, previously known as Forthdeal Limited, subsequently as Royal Dutch Shell plc, and now Shell plc after ditching the disgraced Royal Dutch moniker, left strange trails across the world: Nigeria, Malaysia, Norway, Sakhalin, the North Sea — and, very definitely, Ireland.

This instalment in the Shell spying series turns to the Corrib gas project in County Mayo: one of the most bitterly contested energy developments in modern Irish history.

Corrib was never merely a pipeline dispute. It became a conflict over policing, community consent, corporate power, environmental risk, private security, whistleblowers, leaked emails, alleged surveillance, alleged intimidation, alleged death threats, Garda conduct, alcohol allegations, parliamentary questions, and the awkward role played by royaldutchshellplc.com in bringing uncomfortable information into the public domain. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell: Public Enemy Number 1 – A Love Letter to Greed, Lies, and Pollution

Aug 12th, 2025
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If evil needed a mascot, it would look suspiciously like a giant yellow shell. Forget SPECTRE and SMERSH—those were fiction. Shell’s record of villainy is all too real.

This is the story of an oil giant who funded Nazis, tested carcinogens on their own employees, and still have the gall to tell you they care about “net zero.”

From the Third Reich to Today: Same Script, Different Lies

Shell’s rap sheet starts early: during WWII, Shell effectively sacrificed its own Dutch employees to maintain ties with Nazi Germany, prioritising profits over human lives. Fast-forward a few decades and the playbook hasn’t changed—they’re still perfectly happy to gamble with lives, only now it’s under the glossy cover of corporate social responsibility. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell and BP: Drowning in Billions While the Planet Burns

Feb 11th, 2025
by John Donovan.
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Ah, the fossil fuel industry—where record-breaking heatwaves, climate disasters, and widespread energy poverty are just background noise to another year of grotesque profits. Shell and BP have once again proven that they are masters of cashing in on planetary destruction, raking in a staggering £26.2 billion in profits in 2024—more than doublewhat the UK has committed to international climate finance over five years. Yes, you read that right: these two planetary arsonists made more in one year than the UK plans to spend on fixing their mess over half a decade. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

2: Controversies surrounding Shell

Nov 26th, 2018
by John Donovan.
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One of the Wikipedia articles removed in its entirety focussed on a range of controversies arising from the activities of Royal Dutch Shell stretching back over the decades, including its 50 plus years record of exploitation and pollution in Nigeria.Controversies surrounding Royal Dutch Shell

There have been concerns over Royal Dutch Shell over environmental and health and safety related issues as well as in respect of its businesses practices and priorities. In recent times Shell’s management has acknowledged some of these problems and has promised to take steps to repair damage done both to the affected parties and to its own reputation, which has involved tightening internal controls between its different subsidiaries, an ostensible commitment to corporate social responsibility, an extensive global advertising campaign and other initiatives in the late 1990s (see Ken Saro-Wiwa) and early 2000s. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.